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Why You Should Blacken the Trip Pins on Your Model Trains

N-Scale Union Pacific Evanston Subdivision
17.2K subscribers
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4.7K views 3 years ago
Trip pins… What are they? And why might you want to blacken them on your freight cars? That’s what we talk about in this video. We model railroaders tend to focus on the BIG tasks when building our layouts - “big tasks" such as benchwork, trackwork, wiring, and scenery. But sometimes we want to work on details instead. Blackening the trip pins on our freight cars is one example of such detail work. Yet it is an important part of upgrading our freight cars. Join me as we do just such detail work in this video. Support this channel via PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/UPEva... "Staging Yard Changes on My N-Scale Layout"    • Staging Yard Changes on My N-Scale La...   Freight Car Upgrades playlist    • Freight Car Upgrades   My videos page    / nscaleunionpacificevanstonsubdivision   Facebook group   / 724442657753901   ...more
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Why You Should Blacken the Trip Pins on Your Model Trains
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2021Aug 7
Trip pins… What are they? And why might you want to blacken them on your freight cars? That’s what we talk about in this video. We model railroaders tend to focus on the BIG tasks when building our layouts - “big tasks" such as benchwork, trackwork, wiring, and scenery. But sometimes we want to work on details instead. Blackening the trip pins on our freight cars is one example of such detail work. Yet it is an important part of upgrading our freight cars. Join me as we do just such detail work in this video. Support this channel via PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/UPEva... "Staging Yard Changes on My N-Scale Layout"    • Staging Yard Changes on My N-Scale La...   Freight Car Upgrades playlist    • Freight Car Upgrades   My videos page    / nscaleunionpacificevanstonsubdivision   Facebook group   / 724442657753901  

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N-Scale Union Pacific Evanston Subdivision

17.2K subscribers